Improvement in machines for randing boot and shoe-heels



UNITED STATES PATENT CEEIcE.

HENRY PACKARD, OF NORTH BRIDGEWATER, ASSIGNOR TO ARZA B.`KEITH,

OF BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR RANDING BOgOT AND SHOE-HEELS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,263, dated August 22, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. PACKARD, of North Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Randing Boot and Shoe-Heels; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which aecompanies and forms part of this speciiication, is a description of my invention, suiiicient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention relates to an improved method of applying heel-rands or runners to boot and shoe-heels preparatory to the process of fastening a heel to a boot or shoe in a heeling-machine.

Usually these heel-rands are fastened in position upon the heel by hand-tacking or pegging;

but in my method I use a pegging or nailingmachine; and my invention consists, primarily, in combining with a pegging or nailing mechanism and a pivoted post or heel-support a randguide and a heel-guide, so arranged relatively to the feed and nailing mechanism that the rand is guided to and held in position upon the heel during the pegging or nailing operation.

The drawing represents,in plan, in front view, and in side elevation, the post and head of a nailing or pegging-machine with my improvement embodied therewith.

a represents the base-plate; b, the post; c, the head; d, the swing-plate that carries the feedfoot and nail-tube foot; e, the weighted pedallever pivoted to the post, and having pivoted to its front arm a post, f, which slides vertically in a suitable bearing, the top of said post being the work-supporting rest upon Which the heel to be randed77 is supported, and over which said heel is fed, the heel being held to the feed and nail-tube mechanism by the stress of the Weight on the pedal-lever. Under the head c is an adjustable edge-guide, g, against which the edge of the heel is held, the adjustment of this giude determining the distance om the edge of the heel at Which the nails or pegs shall be driven through the rand. At one side oi' the head is a plate, h, at the front end of which is a flat eye or guide, adapted in size and form to receive the rand and allow it to run readily through it; This rand-guide is placed at such distance in advance of the vertical plane of the front of the edge-guide as to conduct the rand to the edge ofthe heel, and so that the thick or outer edge of the rand shall come Hush, or nearly so, With the edge of the upper heel-lift; and a heel, t', being held on top ofthe post, with the edge of its upper lift against the edge-guide, and the end of the rand-strip 7c being entered between the heel and feed or peg-tube foot, the rand will be accurately fastened in position upon the heel7 as the nailing or pegging-machine is operated, Without other care or manipulation by the operator than that required to hold the heeledge against the edge-guide.

The rand-guide is preferably made adjusta-v cessity of trimming off short rand-strips andl Wasting stock or stopping the action of the machine, as the operator, beginning With one heel, held as seen by the dotted line, places the breast of another heel against it, (as denoted by the dotted line,) when it reaches the position denoted by the full line, so that the rand-applying operation is continuous so long as there is rand material, the supply of which can, of course, be kept up by an assistant, Who can also cut the heel-connected rands apart as each randed heel passes from the nailing mechanism.

By this method of randing heels the rands are not only more expeditiously applied than they can be by hand, but they are applied with much greater accuracy.

I claiml. In combination with a nailing or pegging mechanism and a heel-supporting' rest or post, a rand-guide for guiding the rand-strip into position to be nailed upon the heel and relatively to the edge of the heel, substantially as described.

rand-coil or ribbon7 and placing the heels breast to breast, so as to feed from one to the other7 substantially as shown and described.

H. F. PACKARD.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS GOULD, S. B. KmDER. 

